Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Retro-Dial


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Delete. Randykitty (talk) 21:49, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Retro-Dial

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Software product that appears not to have attracted any notability whatsoever. The article is unsourced but a brief search didn't bring forth any verifiable secondary sources information whatsoever. Fiachra10003 (talk) 19:17, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Because of the nature of this software, most of the sources are non-web. There are many references and discussions on various non-web bulletin board systems, deep web locations, and the many Retro-Dial stations themselves accessible via telnet. The only public web sources besides two web sites hosting two of the stations and the Diversi-Dial wikipedia entry (which is linked in the article), are various forum discussions and BBS lists around the web, which are really of no consequence other than directing people to actual servers. Do you have any suggestions on how to proceed with this, or in general, advice on submitting any article for which content is notable outside of the public-facing web? --Que1000101 (talk) 03:26, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
 * It's not necessary to have web-based sources - many wikipedia articles are sourced entirely from references to books, journals, off-line newspapers and other media that aren't on the web. However, the sources must be independent, verifiable and respected.  Take a look at WP:SECONDARY for a general discussion of how to proceed. Fiachra10003 (talk) 22:03, 22 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:47, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:47, 19 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger One ping only 02:28, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

 
 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Tom Morris (talk) 11:46, 3 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete. Article topic doesn't pass the search engine test for notability (the GNG). It had no meaningful hits in secondary source databases such as ProQuest, LexisNexis, HighBeam, Questia, or Google Books. Almost all hits were for rotary dial phones. From what I found, it isn't similar enough to Diversi-Dial to warrant a redirect there (by the way, ddial has many more sources from a gbooks search alone). Please ping me if more (non-English and offline) sources show in the future. czar ♔   16:28, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.